White House Wracked With Infighting

Washington Post:

He also makes new disclosures about the behind-the-scenes infighting at the White House that helped prompt the change from Card to Bolten in the spring of 2006. By that point, he reports, some close to the president had concluded that "the White House management structure had collapsed," with senior aides Rove and Dan Bartlett "constantly at war."

He quotes Gillespie as telling one Republican while running interference for Alito's Supreme Court nomination: "I'm going crazy over here. I feel like a shuttle diplomat, going from office to office. No one will talk to each other."

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Comments

[Ginzaman]

What do expect from insane blood thirsty neocon war criminals?

[TJTelecaster]

"Gentlemen; you can't fight in here..!

This is the War Room..!"

We are Fucked WWIII Coming Soon..!

[speakingtruth2power]

If Bush had more control, he wouldn't have become a hedonist bisexual, coke dealing drunk who cared more for frat boy jokes than going to classes and learning something.

[FlowerGirl]

How low can you go?
(We win at Limbo, but lose as a nation.)

[BWonka]

"the White House management structure had collapsed,"

Well, that goes along with all the other FAILURES of the Bu$hCo Administration. And if Bu$h had had more control it would have collapsed sooner.

[baghdadjoe]

Chimpie on Chimpie:

"I've been here too long.."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2161205,00.html

Wow, I'm sure that's going to boost the morale of the Sons and Daughters he's led into a hopeless bloodbath!

[shockmagog]

Robert Draper's new book indicates that by 2006 Karl Rove's fascist propaganda antics (even by White House standards) had to finally be reined in.

The article states:

'Rove, meanwhile, was not happy, Draper writes, with (Joshua) Bolten's (the new White House Chief of Staff) decision to strip him of his oversight of policy at the White House, directing his focus instead to politics and the coming midterm elections. Bolten noticed that other staffers were "intimidated" by Rove, and Rove was seen as doing too much, "freelancing, insinuating himself into the message world . . . parachuting into Capitol Hill whenever it suited him."'

[SGP]

Was there really a management structure? What we have seen all along is a passive,innatentive so-called visionary who blindly delegated key decisions (appointment of Bremer,de-Baathification, etc) to Cheney/Rumsfeld so he could go on more bike rides.

[ChiGuy]

Sure there was a management structure. But the Chimp wasn't involved.

Much like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, Bush was just the face of the product.

[getoffmedz]

ChiGuy - close. The White House is a badly run PR firm.

Nothing more.

[taylorndncar]

newies don't remember the vietnam war and how the democrats fell apart,...just like now...!!!

ignorant people will remain ignorant, if they cannot understand history...!!!

just like in rome, every little thing becomes a senate debate...!

gop did it to the demos in the seventies and now, it's the demo's time to look foolish...!!!

[repubesnivel]

Boy, convolution personified!

[ChiGuy]

HA!!!
When will your inept Republicans stop so that Dems can start?

[JaneC]

Ah yes, Vietnam, where Chimpy's true heroic nature began to show. Sigh, What a man...

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ATA/26235P~Chickenhawk-Posters.jpg

[ChiGuy]

*sigh*
My hero.

[KosmicKat]

Just look at their glowering, vinegary, porky faces. All they need now are bell jars with plenty of formaldehyde and showcasing at the Mutter Museum.

[WOLFWARRIOR]

4-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Former U.S. Drug Czar, to Address
National Drug Crisis, Keynote Grand Opening of New Allenwood,
PA 'National Model' Detox


CZAR
1. an emperor or king.
2. (often initial capital letter) the former emperor of Russia.
3. an autocratic ruler or leader.
4. any person exercising great authority or power in a particular
field: a czar of industry.

Now boy's and girl's exactly why is washington insider's refering too
there people as former russian term's - too say who they are.


Could it be - Washington insider are really commie's????????

No wonder why the washington insider's and Lobbiest love there
corporation and hate the people.


.

[shockmagog]

General McCaffrey: Best known as almost singlehandedly losing the "drug war." What better spokesperson for a treatment center. Perhaps he has come around to the reality of drug treatment as key rather than interdiction and incarceration.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/4-star-gen-barry-mccaffrey-former/story.aspx?guid=%7BF8FB5805-5FB2-4E13-97F1-321F39C261AA%7D

[ChiGuy]

Yes, that's right Wolfie, BushCo are nothing but a bunch of Communists.

:D

[1man1voicenovote]

The un-regulated, un-registered and un-inspected fleet of Mexican owned and operated tractor-trailers will have reached every State in the Country by now. Starting Saturday, without fanfare or protests, Bush's plan to crush the Teamsters for his corporate masters' profits began in earnest with a swarm of scab truckers from Mexico.

This is absolute insanity.
How is this good for America?
There are too many fires to put out...
Too many alligators in the swamp...
Too many issues that divide...
To stop following the Bull through the China Shop and GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE BEAST AND STOP IT!

[1man1voicenovote]

Happy Labor Day!
Join The Party!
Labor '08!

[ChiGuy]

"...will have reached every State in the Country by now."
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Wow.
Better barricade the doors and unlock the gun cabinet! It's a friggin' INVASION!!!!!

Call you senators this instant and stop the ONGOING flow of trucks from Canada as well, dammit!

[getoffmedz]

ChiGuy - you have obviously never driven in Mexico.

[getoffmedz]

1man1voicenovote - your concern is shared by many but until a few innocent families are wiped-out nothing will happen.

Local law enforcement has no real jurisdiction over the NAFTA truckers from Mexico.

[1man1voicenovote]

It is only one of so many fires, there are bigger ones to put out now.

You can't hope to extinguish the fires until you stop the guy with the matches!

Maybe General Pace can stop it, if Congress can't.

[BWonka]

Beware mothertruckers!!!

Enjoying your acid trip?

[Don the Anti-Terror-Dolphin]

O

and...

how about this

whopper

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It was embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' wife who persuaded him to pack it in.

The nation's beleaguered top lawman decided to resign last week after his wife, Rebecca, urged him to abandon his long-shot fight to stay in office, friends told Newsweek

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/03/2007-09-03_wife_persuaded_alberto_gonzales_to_resig.html

O O O

O O

O
alberto leaves with

the biggest god almighty lie

ever told

O O O

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[getoffmedz]

yep.

[PeacethroughStringTheory]

"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sought to justify his confidence the United States will not attack Iran, saying the proof comes from his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God, the press reported on Monday.
Ahmadinejad told academics in a speech that elements inside Iran were pressing for compromise in the nuclear standoff with the West over fears the United States could launch a military strike.

"In some discussions I told them 'I am an engineer and I am examining the issue. They do not dare wage war against us and I base this on a double proof'," he said in the speech on Sunday, reported by the reformist Etemad Melli and Kargozaran newspapers."


He could have just said that he has a satellite dish and watches American media and he concludes that Dems would never allow an attack no matter what the provocation by Iran.

[Don the Anti-Terror-Dolphin]

he is using math

like how many years longer

it is taking us to defeat the mighty iraqi

army?

than it took to

defeat hitler's weirmacht navy and air force

O O O

O O

O

are we winning yet?

O O

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[Trollstakeyourmeds]

He's is also using the fact that Iran has a very large, well-equipped, devoted standing army. Something we are lacking, at this point in time. Iran would not fold like Iraq did. Even Chimpy can't be that stupid.

[HumeSkeptic]

He could have just said that he has a satellite dish and watches American media and he concludes that Dems would never allow an attack no matter what the provocation by Iran.-PeacethroughStringTheory
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I'm not too sure that "Dems would never allow an attack". Some Dems are just as depraved as the Republicans.

Regarding provocations, there have been none by Iran. All provocations have been from the fucking fascists occupying our White House- hell bent on attacking Iran to steal their oil for US corporations.

Ahmadinejad is seemingly an equally deluded religious nut as your Fuhrer.

[Bijoux]

Just for a lark, I should adore hearing President Bush having a discussion with Academicians.

One not members of Liberty University, I mean.

[bumpersticker]

They are trying to sell a Calculus view of the war - if you pour enough money in and enough people die, you will continue to get half-way to victory. You can't ever get to it, but the sales job is that "it's just like victory."

Bush will continue to sell "Right direction" and "Getting closer" to the gullible. If asked what the finish line is, all he spouts is smoke.

Of course there's dissention in the White House. "Halfway there" tends to make the administrators as nervous as an Enron accountant as the destination remains illusive and the ledger looks increasingly "creative."